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NEW ORLEANS ILLUSTRATED.
imitate stone, aful is of the Gothic style in architecture. Approaching the city from any direction, the high graceful spire of this edifice is among the first to meet the eye.
In January, 1805, the Protestant citizens of New Orleans, feeling the need of a church in which to hold Divine service, met in the house of .Madame Fourage,
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with a view of taking preliminary steps to obtain the ministrations of a Protestant clergyman, and to secure a suitable site on which to erect a house of worship. A committee was appointed to procure subscriptions, etc.
On November 16th of the same year, a meeting was held, at which two wardens and thirteen vestrymen were elected, and a salary of two thousand